Date/Time: 25 August 2022, 12:30-13:00 Venue: Kulturhuset and Zoom Child protection services are organised very differently across the globe – but how significant are these differences for child rights protection? The interview presents the new DIPA/LawTransform (UiB) project Child Protection Systems Across the World Participants: Jill Duerr Berrick (University of California Berkeley) and Marit Skivenes (DIPA, UiB) […]
Date/Time: 25 August 2022, 14:00-15:00 Venue: Kulturhuset and Zoom Several international aid organisations claim that girls in low-income countries do not attend school when on their periods due to a lack of access to sanitary products such as pads, tampons, or menstrual cups. Many menstrual hygiene management (MHM) campaigns therefore distribute free sanitary products to […]
Date/Time: 25 August 2022, 17:15-18:15 Venue: Kulturhuset and Zoom Climate change mitigation and adaptation policies – such as development of energy sources to replace fossil fuels – are almost invariably land-demanding. And hydroelectric dams and windmill parks are often constructed on land belonging to and used by indigenous peoples, resulting in conflicts where indigenous peoples’ […]
Date/Time: 25 August 2022, 11:15-12:15 Venue: Kulturhuset and Zoom Indigenous peoples across the globe have increasingly demanded accountability for the human rights violations that have been committed against them, and in some countries, truth commissions have been set up as a mechanism to document abuses and further reconciliation – including in Norway, where there is […]
Date/Time: 25 August 2022, 10:00-11:00 Venue: Kulturhuset and Zoom Sexual violence committed during war or internal armed conflict is a major global challenge yet is often neglected during transitions from conflict and repressive regimes. Some governments have tried to address conflict-related-sexual-violence through truth commissions, whose job it is to document human rights violations and provide […]
Keynote: Angana P. Chatterji: The Role of Counter-Memory in Contexts of Majoritarian Nationalism and Illiberal Democracy
Date/Time: 25 August 2022, 09:00-09:45 Venue: Kulturhuset and Zoom History-writing, remembrance, and erasure are powerful political tools in the hands of victors and rulers – but also serve as modalities of resistance for subaltern and oppressed groups. In this keynote, Dr. Chatterji discusses the role of counter-memory and the archive, in establishing foundations for accountability […]
Date/Time: 24 August 2022, 16:00-17:30 Venue: University Aula and Zoom Prof. Sylvia Tamale (Makerere University) is a leading African feminist lawyer, sociologist and human rights activist. She has won prizes and awards for defending human rights of marginalised groups such as women, sex workers, homosexuals and refugees. Her research interests include gender, law & sexuality, […]
Date/Time: 24 August 2022, 14:30-15:15 Venue: University Aula and Youtube Being a judge – male or female – entails considerable risks. Yet there is little systematic knowledge about these risks and their consequences, for individual judges as well as for the functioning of courts and for judicial independence. Knowledge about how gendered forms of violence […]
Date/Time: 24 August 2022, 13:30-14:30 Venue: University Aula and Youtube Erika Aifán is a Guatemalan judge who over many years earned a reputation for her independence and relentless pursuit of high-profile corruption cases. She eventually had to resign from her position and go into exile in March 2022, when the situation made it impossible for […]
Date/Time: 24 August 2022, 12:30-13:30 Venue: University Aula and Youtube In June 2022 the US Supreme Court struck down the protection of abortion rights given in the 1973 by overturning Roe v Wade judgment. The Dobbs v Jackson decision has already had profound consequences in the US – and also globally. With the increasing politicization […]